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starshipwinepineapple ,

I really like that it is a static website being updated and built on a schedule from github actions.

potentiallynotfelix ,

This is a great site, thanks for sharing.

chiisana ,
@chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net avatar

Looking great! I think it would be amazing if there are filters for processor generations as well as form factor. Thanks for sharing this tool!

acockworkorange , (edited )

Number of Drive bays is also a neat filter.

corroded ,

I have a few services running on Proxmox that I’d like to switch over to bare metal. Pfsense for one. No need for an entire 1U server, but running on a dedicated machine would be great.

Every mini PC I find is always lacking in some regard. ECC memory is non-negotiable, as is an SFP+ port or the ability to add a low-profile PCIe NIC, and I’m done buying off-brand Chinese crop on Amazon.

If someone with a good reputation makes a reasonably-priced mini PC with ECC memory and at least some way to accept a 10Gb DAC, I’ll probably buy two.

Concave1142 ,

I’ve been running OPNsense as a VM in Proxmox for a year on an AliExpress box that doesn’t have ECC. If I might ask, why do you have a requirement for ECC?

Before this box, I ran a Dell R230 with pfSense but got tired of the noise and 40 watt power draw.

I’ve had zero issues without ECC, so I’m just curious about your need for it.

hendrik ,

Does anyone happen to know if there is a N100 model that supports HDMI-CEC so I can make my old TV set smart with a recent Kodi and maybe some retro-games? But I'd rather not let it consume 9W or whatever such a machine needs all day long. So it'd need to start and shut down on its own. Preferably without manual additional steps involved, hence the CEC...

possiblylinux127 , (edited )

Just use eBay directly

Also a lot of these listings are junk. The want $100 for like $50 worth of hardware. I personally am waiting for the market to get a little more sane

mahin OP ,

I found using ebay to be quite slow, and it was hard digging through the listing to find if it had wifi, bluetooth etc.

I’ve found some good deals e.g this one: www.ebay.com/itm/256581174595 for $50.

possiblylinux127 , (edited )

It isn’t bad I just think it is important to keep in mind many if the listings are deliberately misleading.

Side note I wonder who will buy that listing. It has jumped in popularity thanks to lemmy

RmDebArc_5 ,
@RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works avatar

Sadly only for US and UK, or am I missing something?

mahin OP ,

I plan to add Canada and Australia next.

just_another_person ,

Nice, but I wish there was a “Reputable Brand” or “Warranty” filter.

A lot of these boxes are made by the same OEM, and branded a thousand different ways under various names specifically for price fixing on large marketplace portals online - different colors, different cases, but same features without a warranty.

A lot of these fake brand names come out of companies who simply change names once they hit a certain number of bad reviews on marketplaces. Same shitty hardware, different brand name. Beelink and Minisforum are legit, but ‘KingHive Pro’ is probably made by ‘MiniKing’, and also sells things under “GamerKing”, for example.

fpslem ,

Beelink and Minisforum are legit

I wish I knew a lot of this when I first started shopping for a mini PC. I ended up with a Beelink model that I’m quite happy with, but it seems almost luck that I didn’t pick another one, and I would have liked a “reputable brand” search function.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Next time, check out Level1Techs on YouTube. Wendell reviews a lot of these devices, and he’ll give pretty good feedback on what’s legit and what’s not. Ho has reviewed MinisForum for years and has consistently recommended them. Just be careful, because he also reviews the more sketchy devices and sometimes recommends them (but with caveats), so don’t assume that because it is covered, that it’s legit.

fpslem ,

Thanks for the rec! I also love that you presume that there will be a next time, cuz, uh, that’s accurate. These little boxes are powerhouses, I probably want one for a TV set-top box now that all the TV boxes (Roku, Amazon Fire, even Android TV and soon Apple TV) are riddled with ads.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, I might end up getting one for that. My current TV doesn’t have ads, but does have enough smart features to have a Jellyfin app, so I’m good for now. But my SO wants a bigger TV, so that may end up being sooner than later.

Omgboom ,

Beelink are solid in my opinion, but I was in the same boat, I picked one at random that had the specs I wanted.

mahin OP , (edited )

I was mainly looking for used ones like Optiplex, Thinkcenter etc when I made this. Hence those brand filters. Thought they were a much better deal than a beelink, so I guess the site is optimized for that. Oh also can you send the link for the KingHive Pro listing? Might be able to filter out brands like that.

just_another_person , (edited )

Those were just made up brands, but you can see what I mean if you look through Amazon, eBay, Alibab…etc.

From your own tool you can see these brands stand out:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bfaf0a9d-3fde-4bf5-8ea5-6714dae60557.jpeg

Some extra context: news.risky.biz/risky-biz-news-acemagic-mini-pcs-s…

‘AceMagic’ AKA ‘AceMagician’ AKA ‘AcePuter’ AKA ‘AceMini’ depending on your market.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Anyone have experience with external HDD enclosures? I currently have two 3.5" HDDs, and I’d like room for two or three more. Reliability is pretty important to me, so something that’ll cut out periodically isn’t going to work.

just_another_person ,

Just go with a well known brand with a warranty.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

The thing is, I don’t know what “well known brands” are in that space. It’s not something I buy frequently.

just_another_person ,

Then just go with the warranty. Good brands are obviously well known: Cooler Master, Corsair, TerraMaster, Orico, ASUS…etc.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

TerraMaster, Orico

I honestly have never used either of these, yet they show up at a lot of retailers.

ASUS is a bit sketchy these days IMO, so I try to avoid them.

just_another_person ,

Well, if you have your preference, go with it. The base thing is to stick with a company with a solid reputation that was a warranty and isn’t disappearing overnight.

MachineFab812 ,

Doesn’t work on Firefox mobile. Neither “mobile” site or Desktop versions. Hitting “Next/Enter” on my keyboard does nothing, there is no Submit button that I can see, and refreshing the page just resets all fields to zero.

I don’t want an Intel with 4gb RAM and a 256GB spinning drive, and OS included? No thanks. Without being able to filter results, its just another craigslist/amazon/newegg front-end … a less useful one.

TseseJuer ,

works fine for me

just_another_person ,

I didn’t have an issue.

BearOfaTime ,

Works for me, but damn it’s dog snot slow. Like typing takes 1-2 seconds for each character to show up

f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 ,

This; works on Mull; there is no submit button, it just constantly refreshes the results and thus is slow AF from continuously juggling the data.

mahin OP ,

I’ll try to optimize it, thank you.

Binette ,

Awesome! I was looking for one to gift to my cousins

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